"It’s attributed to Pablo Picasso, and as most of you probably realize, he’s the only non-American artist whose work will be featured in today’s auction.

Nicholas Sparks -- The Longest Ride

Some esthetic student had discovered an article on Pablo Picasso in Life magazine.

Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide

There were always people about talking of artists I had never heard of, Pablo Picasso and Joan Miró, and books I had no time to read, T. E. Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom, and Mrs. Dalloway, by someone called Virginia Woolf, who came once to Frieda’s.